Minutes - Sep 23, 2010

City Centre Coalition Meeting Minutes

7pm, Sep 23, 2010

Somerset Community Police Centre

393 Somerset Street West

Present:

John Verbaas, Action Sandy Hill, Chair

Cam Robertson, Dow's Lake Residents' Association, Vice-Chair,

Leslie Kirk, Old Ottawa East Community Asscn; Meeting Secretary

Roland Dorsay, Island Park Community Association

Clive Doucet, Councillor/Mayoral Candidate

John Courtneidge, federal NDP candidate, Ottawa-Orleans

David Jeanes, Transport Action Canada

Regrets:

George Wright, Glebe resident

Charles Ackben-Marchand, Centretown Residents Association

1) Administrative

a. Meeting Secretary: Leslie volunteered to be secretary

2) Election of 2010-11 Chair and Vice Chair

• • Cam explained election procedure

  • nominations were closed

  • John approved as Chair

  • Leslie approved as Vice Chair

  • John discussed goals for the Committee, these being, getting a web presence and migration of the list-server to another provider

3) CCC Questionnaire to Mayoralty Candidates re: transportation issues

A. discussed whether this would be a worthwhile exercise

• • Cam noted his involvement with Clive's campaign and as such would not be

  • participating in any questionnaire

  • John asked Clive for his input on this issue; Clive said it would be a

  • waste of time as candidates receive many questionnaires and can only respond

  • to those from certain organizations

B. -discussed what CCC should do instead

• • decided that compiling information about the various candidates'

  • positions on major transit issues would be a good project

  • selected issues:

    • views on current tunnel/lrt plan,

    • east end bridge in relation to the importance of getting truck traffic out of downtown,

    • views on important factors to consider when making decisions in relation to western LRT,

    • attitudes with respect to building more roads

  • Cam will review Clive, John C. To look into Watson, Roland will research

  • Haydon and John V. O'Brien

  • information to be forwarded to John V. By Monday, October 3, 2010

  • the results will be circulated to the candidates for comment for

  • verification and final results forward to the CCC list

4) West LRT extension route selection EA

• • discussed important issues for upcoming public consultations

  • important issues being: looking at ridership impacts within the greenbelt

  • as well as to suburbs, intensification/development potential on candidate

  • routes, impact on modal splits, increasing revenue and all day usage, long

  • term plan for rail on Carling in long term future, and environmental impact

5) Bus Transitway Planning recommendations to council

• • John informed us of recent recommendations to council

  • the recommendations being to begin the EA process for a number of new bus

  • transitway expansions that will total 700+ m$ over the next decade

    • Kanata south (Centrum to Scotiabank place & south)

    • Bayshore to Moodie Drive

    • Blair to Innes

    • Hurdman to Innes to Cumberland

  • the latter also includes the Alta Vista corridor

  • "hospital link" and will be four lanes (2 bus/HOV and 2 general traffic

  • Leslie to pass the 'Hospital Link' info to OECA for comment

6) Other announcements or items from the floor

David: open house for pedestrian bridge over 417 at baseball stadium coming

up

Leslie:

a. Clegg/Fifth Avenue footbridge

- 2 firms (Delcan and McCormack Rankin) being allowed to bid on EA

- Public consultations to begin in the New Year

- 2 year timeline for this EA

b.Rideau River footbridge - process is moving quickly

c. Smyth/Main Street bridge rehabilitation: public consultation coming up;

OECA will be suggesting that bridge have better links with the NCC paths

along Rideau river

-Roland: Ashcroft Convent development - outlined the concerns of the various

stakeholders

-John C.: spoke about initiative to create "no fare" transit

Next Meeting: October 28, 2010 (location TBA)